Faculty Members and Research Interests

• Sport, Race and Colonialism
• Sport, Terrorism and Radicalization
• Sport and Communication
• Sport and Emotion

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies

• History of the Modern Olympic Games
• History of Olympic Commercialism
• Canadian "nation-building" through the Olympic Games
• 19th Century Baseball-Heritage- Halls of Fame, Ballparks

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies

• Physiology and biochemistry of exercise training
• Exercise and testing protocols to enhance body composition in youth

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

• Understanding the mechanisms of adaptation to exercise
• Enhancing Cardiovascular and muscular adaptation to exercise and diet
• Muscle and exercise mechanics

• Neuromuscular function
• Neurophysiological and functional changes with advanced age
• Neurophysiological and functional changes following mild traumatic brain injury

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

• Sport marketing
• Internationalization in education and sport management
• Sport management curriculum
• Intercollegiate athletics
• Women in sport
• Participation in sport

Research Supervision: Management and Leadership

• Biomechanics
• Tissue mechanics
• Joint mechanics
• Joint injury
• In-vivo studies of whole-body vibration (exercise platforms and occupational exposures)

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

• Capacity and management of nonprofit and community-based organizations for safe and inclusive sport and physical activity
• Concussion in youth sport
• Safe (and unsafe) sport culture
• Women in sport leadership
• Integration of newcomers in and through organized sport

Research Supervision: Management and Leadership

• Physical activity among preschoolers
• Program implementation and evaluation
• Children’s perspectives
• Psychological interventions (e.g., imagery use, self-efficacy)
• Self-presentation and social physique anxiety

Research Supervision: TBA

• Brain health and plasticity associated with exercise
• Executive function, mild traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative disease
• The visual control of eye and limb movements
• Multisensory interactions between acoustic, proprioceptive and visual information

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences, Psychological Basis of Kinesiology

• Assessments in Exercise Physiology

• Culture of disability
• Embodied philosophical ethnography
• Ethics of (dis)ability
• Health and (dis)ability
• Health and marginalised population

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies

• Athletic Injuries

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

• Aerobic exercise assessment prescription, and training
• Exercise-training based cardic rehabilitation
• Respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic control during exercise
• Mechanisms determining exercise (in)tolerance
• Chemoreflex control of breathing and the circulation
• Integrative regulation of the sympathetic nervous systemuries

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

• Macronutrient (CHO, FAT, PRO) ingestion timing and exercise performance
• Food supplements and health and/or exercise performance
• Training and exercise performance
• Exercise and body composition changes

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

• Human Anatomy Education
• Extended Reality and Spatial Ability
• Alternative Assessment and Approaches to Learning
• Qualitative and Mixed Methods

• Roles and mechanisms of intracellular molecular signaling pathways in the development of cardiovascular disease/complications associated with Type I diabetes
• Neurological influence of adrenergic signaling in the expression of stress-related cardioprotective proteins in the heart and vasculature
• Cellular mechanisms involved in exercise-related reductions in glycemia in Type 1 diabetes

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

• Social Impact of sport and events
• Disability sport and Paralympic Games
• Safety in sport
• Intersections of sport, physical activity, and health
• Sport policy

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies, Management and Leadership

• Physical Activity and Health
• Digital Intervention
• Behavioural Insights

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences, Psychological Basis of Kinesiology

• Effects of maternal exercise on carbohydrate metabolism and fetal outcome
• Effects of nutritional intake and maternal exercise on gestational diabetes
• Prevention of childhood obesity through early intervention during pregnancy and post delivery
• Nutrition & Exercise Lifestyle Intervention Program (NELIP) for overweight and obese pregnant women
• Be Healthy In Pregnancy (B-HIP) with Nutrition and Exercise (with McMaster University)
• Stroller walking program for postpartum women for safe weight loss after delivery
• Effects of a bed-rest-exercise intervention on hospitalized high risk pregnant women

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

• Effects of exercise on cognitive function and neural plasticity
• Cognitive risk factors for falls
• Functional neuroimaging (EEG and fMRI)
• Healthy aging

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

• Biomechanical and neuromuscular function after joint injury and in obesity
• Post-traumatic osteoarthritis development
• Running-related performance, injury prevention and rehabilitation

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

• Body image and mental health
• Emotions and motivation related to exercise
• Intersections of social identity, body, and physical activity
• Conditions that disproportionately impact women’s health (e.g., weight stigma, eating disorders, breast cancer)

Research Supervision: Psychological Basis of Kinesiology

• Interventions to increase physical activity and decrease sedentary behavior
• Exercise as a therapy to improve health
• The role of psychological factors in the prediction, prevention and recovery of injury

Research Supervision: Psychological Basis of Kinesiology

• Human neuromuscular physiology and anatomy
• Muscle strength, fatigue and exercise
• Neuromuscular aspects of adult aging

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

• Sport and Communication
• Sport and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
• Sport for Development
• Social History of Sport
• Sport and Gender
• Sport and Race

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies, Management and Leadership

• Genetic Doping in Sport
• Olympic Studies
• Women and Sport and Embodiment
• Philosophy of Sport
• Sport Medicine Ethics

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies in Kinesiology

• Neural discharge patterns and their impact on neurotransmitter release and vascular control
• Reflex cardiovascular control in integrated systems
• Forebrain modification of autonomic and cardiovascular regulation
• Regulation of blood flow to nerves
• Impact of vascular disease on neural (e.g., brain and peripheral nerves) blood flow, structure and function
• Exercise and neuroprotection

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

• Sport Leadership
• Executive Leadership Development
• Higher education

Research Supervision: Management and Leadership